Sizing a trial to alter the trajectory of health behaviours: Methods, parameter estimates, and their application

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2297-2316

  Murray, David M ^a   Blitstein, Jonathan L ^b   Hannan, Peter J ^c   Baker, William L ^c   Lytle, Leslie A ^c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Group randomized trial; Power; Random coefficients analysis; Variance components

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT HEALTH; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; EXERCISE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POWER ANALYSIS; PRETEST POSTTEST DESIGN; RANDOMIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLE SIZE; SCHOOL CHILD; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; VARIANCE; VIOLENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; CHILD; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MALE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SAMPLE SIZE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34248400080     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2714     Document Type: Article

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